294 Quotes About Ageing
- Author Haruki Murakami
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Miu let age naturally rise to the surface, accepted it for what it was, and made her peace with it.
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- Author Rose Tremain
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He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true.
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- Author David Nichols
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But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me?
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- Author Leo Tolstoy
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No, life is not over at thirty-one!" Prince Andrei suddenly decided finally and decisively.
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- Author Khaled Hosseini
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The moment is brief, barely enough for a flutter of the pulse but long enough for her illusory self to catch up with the reality of the woman gazing back from the shopwindow. It is a little devastating. This is what ageing is, she thinks as she follows Isabelle into the store, these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them.
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- Author Charles Finch
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I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.
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- Author Shady K. Hallab
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Time is a function of memory; what does not pass through a smile flies away through dark. Celebrating passing time applies to the successful ones. Cheer on your birthday, you're among the lucky ones.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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Richard found himself imagining the earl sixty, eighty, five hundred years ago: a mighty warrior, a cunning strategist, a great lover of women, a fine friend, a terrifying foe. There was still the wreckage of that man in there somewhere. That was what made him so terrible, and so sad.
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- Author Satchel Paige
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How old would you be if you didn;t know how old you are?
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